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“That's what sons do: write to their mothers about recall, tell themselves about the past until they come to realize that they are the past.”

Writing Past Mother Realizing Son Recalls

Book:Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

Source: Let the Great World Spin: A Novel

“It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.”

Kind Past Peace Numbers Morning Distance Painful Get Up Intensity Recalls

Author:Leonard Cohen

“So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood.”

Believe Long Past Joy Mother Father Imagination Memories Morning Gone Forever Childhood Sunlight Recalls Our Father Bosoms Our Memories Gladness Apricots Joys Of Childhood

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

“Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.”

Knows Men Love May Past Passion Recalls Revive

Book:Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

Source: Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida

“Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.”

Long Moments Seems Past Spirit Voice Lines Steps Stones Instinct Dust Legends Grain Recalls Neglected Every Step

Book:At home and abroad

Source: At home and abroad

“Nothing recalls the past like music.”

Past Music Recalls

Author:Madame de Stael

“You won't be free from guilt if you are constantly replaying the negative memories of your past. If you're going to replay anything, replay your victories!”

Ifs Past Memories Victory Negative Guilt Positivity Recalls Negativity Our Past Your Past Recollection Replay

Author:Joel Osteen

“One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good.”

Way Past Memories Weight Best Way Occasions Recalls Our Memories Prompts Happy Times Great Memories Make Yourself Happy

Author:Gretchen Rubin